2nd Clipboard possible?  

Just to add, using Snip and Sketch I've gotten 24 items in the Clipboard. When I use Windows key + V to open the Clipboard I only have to click on any one to Paste into programs or dialog boxes such as used here. Haven't checked lately but believe Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010 started the increase in the clipboard size/capacity.

James1093 said:

I use Cntl-C and Cntl-V a lot but need to paste 2 things, one of which is a constant bit of text.
Is there any way to assign this to another Key? So it will permenantly paste that text, leaving C & V to do the other bit?

Why not just use AutoHotkey for the constant text, leaving CTRL+c/CTRL+v for 'normal' copy/paste activity?

I understand from the additional posts that the constant text needs to end with a carriage return (or linefeed) but that can be added easily to your AHK code.

For example, the following uses CTRL+1 to send text (including a carriage return) assigned to a variable:

Code:

constant_txt =
(
Line 1 of text.
Line 2 of text.
Line 3 of text (and the next line, i.e. a backtick followed by r, adds a carriage return).
`r
)
Return

^1::
SendInput,% constant_txt
Return

If `r (backtick and r = carriage return) doesn't work for you then replace with `l (backtick and l = linefeed) instead.

(Note: Use SendInput in your AHK code instead of SendRaw... it's MUCH faster.)

Hope this helps...

Rick, the problem here as far as I understand is that when the lines get fed into Chrome's Console, each of them gets interpreted individually instead of as a block of javascript, and it keeps throwing an error after each line where a javascript function has not been terminated (this is my interpretation of it, as I have virtaully zero knowledge of javascript). The most likely solution would involve feeding the Constant Code as a 'block' rather than line by line.

I think a Clipboard swap might work. Something like below, although I unfortunatley, I don't have time to debug it fully.

Code:

;Enter the raw contents of a file at cursor position
; shortcut is Control + L

; store full ormatted javascript in java1.txt file
; NO quotes around full file path to java1.txt
; use Sendraw instead of send to prevent mis-interpretation of AHK controls
; swap javatest.txt into clipboard temporarily and swap it out when done


^l::


Clip1:=ClipboardAll                                                            ;save the original Clipboard contents to Clip1

FileRead, Clipboard, C:\Dos\insand\ahk\java1.txt        ;read contents of java1.txt to new Clipboard
Clip2:=Clipboard                                                                ;save the new clipboard as Clip2 for logic only

ClipWait, 0.250 

send ^v

ClipWait, 0.250

Clipboard:=Clip1                                                                ;restore original Clipboard

ClipWait, 0.250

return